All departments items listed on this website are considered low value, and therefore should be posted for free. There are also a few benefits for posting for free:

We want to encourage a culture of reuse on campus – keeping items free will assist us in this goal.

The department ‘selling’ the item will have an easier time finding a department to pick it up if the item is free and the hope is that the item will be picked up in a shorter period of time.

“Buying” departments will need to transport the goods via UBC’s Moving Crew, and pay for their time and labour. Keeping reuseable goods free of charge will act as an incentive for departments to search for goods on this website if the cost for the good is transporting it from A to B.

Keeping items for free will eliminate administration associated with transfers of payments between two departments.